Let’s say you got the job. Now it is time is to stand out and get noticed in the workplace. You can’t shrink your way to greatness – you must stand out by playing to your strengths and constantly adding value for your company. This helps you stay when others are laid off. Great companies keep those employees who add great value.
Here is the first of 4 ways to stand out and get noticed in the workplace:
#1 Know your company.
Be familiar with your organization’s purpose, mission and value statements. Do a monthly mini-strategic review on your organization, team or department, noting its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (known as a SWOT analysis). This shows your effort to understand the business and to use this information to regularly make decisions that positively affect the organization’s performance. In tough economic times, employees who have committed the time and effort to know their organization, and what drives its success, are more valuable to the organization. Share your summary of the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats with your management; this shows initiative and exponential effort. Then propose meaningful ideas and value-add suggestions. You can do this when you know your company.
Next week we talk about playing to your strengths.
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